omg.lol
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omg.lol is a web hosting platform on which you can build a web presence, offering features like hosting a simple landing page, email forwarding, and URL redirection, and a community around the product.
Features
- bring your own domain! omg.lol can be used as a service host for your own domain, thus allowing you to own your permalinks etc and have the option to migrate elsewhere without breaking anything on your site.
- rel=me verification by default on its link page builder.
- subdomains: omg.lol is on the public suffix list and while it allows you to define DNS records you won't be able to transfer the subdomain to another provider.
- You should use your own domain however, instead of a subdomain.omg.lol
- Other services
- The omg.lol service offers companion services like status.lol which offer more services useful in building a web presence.
How to
How to setup a domain
omg.lol does support bringing your own domain though doing so requires configuring your own DNS provider as well as telling omg.lol what page your domain should point to on omg.lol. omg.lol refers to personal domains as "External Domains".
Their longer documentation on this is:
- External Domains section on https://home.omg.lol/info/switchboard
IndieWeb Examples
Daryl Sun
Daryl Sun has her homepage https://darylsun.page/ hosted on omg.lol
Kevin Marks
Kevin Marksβs http://kevinmarks.org is hosted at omg.lol. See blog post for the steps it took: https://blog.kevinmarks.org/2024/01/routing-kevinmarks-org-to-omg-lol-step-1-make-an-a-record-in-dns-at-hover-com-for